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Posted by Justin Miller on 12:58:09 01/03/12
My first new thread posted - I thought I'd add some updates to sightings over the New Year's weekend at these three sites for anyone interested in the South Palm Beach county areas.
At Arthur Marshall/Loxahatchee - The screetch owl wasn't visible in its box on the cypress trail in the early afternoon, but the great horned owl was clearly audible. I tried to find it from the cypress trail, then walking around the nature path past the trailer parking area - couldn't find it visually, but it continued to call. C6 was a little less populated than it had been the last few weeks - no roseateds and a lot less Wilson's snipe - but still counted at least 10 snipe, 3 or 4 sandpiper, lots of snowy egret, and good variety of teals & ducks. Also, loggerhead shrikes, yellow rumped and palm warblers, and eastern phoebes continue in good numbers around C6's trees at the southwest end.
Green Cay has been very good - as I posted in another thread, Saturday I logged glossy & white ibis, snowy & great egret, green, tricolor, little blue, and great blue heron, lots of sora (counted 15), least bittern, roseated spoonbill, northern harrier, red shouldered hawk, osprey, blue winged teal, green winged teal, mottled duck, purple gallinule, yellow rumped warbler, palm warbler, black and white warbler, pine warbler, prairie warbler, common yellowthroat, northern cardinal, eastern phoebe, blue headed vireo, moorhen and coot. On Sunday I added numerous painted bunting (4 male, 2 female), screetch owl, american bittern, and blue grey gnatcatcher.
At Wakodahatchee, the wurteman's was there with the GBH and all the other breeding heron, egret, and cormorants. Also, american bittern were surprisingly open and close, more sora there as well, roseated spoonbills and black-bellied whistling duck, purple gallinule, belted kingfisher, and one hawk that some birders were guessing might have been a red-tailed, not usual for there.
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